EP0995702A1 - Automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenial products, and intermediate stacker unit to be used therein - Google Patents

Automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenial products, and intermediate stacker unit to be used therein Download PDF

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EP0995702A1
EP0995702A1 EP98120073A EP98120073A EP0995702A1 EP 0995702 A1 EP0995702 A1 EP 0995702A1 EP 98120073 A EP98120073 A EP 98120073A EP 98120073 A EP98120073 A EP 98120073A EP 0995702 A1 EP0995702 A1 EP 0995702A1
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Peter Wiedmann
Geoffrey John Kerr
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Procter and Gamble Co
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Priority to CA002346397A priority patent/CA2346397C/en
Priority to US09/806,884 priority patent/US6698579B1/en
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Priority to EP99970973A priority patent/EP1144251B1/en
Priority to AT99970973T priority patent/ATE258879T1/de
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/52—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G17/00—Conveyors having an endless traction element, e.g. a chain, transmitting movement to a continuous or substantially-continuous load-carrying surface or to a series of individual load-carriers; Endless-chain conveyors in which the chains form the load-carrying surface
    • B65G17/30—Details; Auxiliary devices
    • B65G17/32—Individual load-carriers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/02—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors
    • B65G47/04—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles
    • B65G47/06—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines
    • B65G47/08—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines spacing or grouping the articles during feeding
    • B65G47/082—Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines spacing or grouping the articles during feeding grouping articles in rows
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
    • B65G2201/02—Articles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
    • B65G2201/02—Articles
    • B65G2201/0214—Articles of special size, shape or weigh
    • B65G2201/022—Flat

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  • the invention relates to an automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenial products such as sanitary towels, pantiliners or the like, as well as to an intermediate stacker unit to be used in this handling device.
  • EP 0 356 654 A1 teaches an apparatus for the supply of packing blanks to a packaging machine in which cassettes are used that are open at the top. They comprise several stacks of blanks one beside the other.
  • the cassettes are placed on a cassette conveyor which is disposed on the rear of the packaging machine, simultaneously serving as a storage area for a multitude of filled cassettes.
  • the stacks of blanks are successively removed from the cassettes and, by upward motion and ensuing transverse motion, supplied to one or several magazines of blanks of the packaging machine.
  • EP 0 465 207 B1 teaches a method and an apparatus for packaging resiliently deformable articles into a box-shape by using a sheet of film, in which the stack to be packaged is inserted into an inner cassette.
  • the latter cooperates with an outer cassette and corresponding folding, overlapping and sealing means with a sheet of film placed in between so as to form a closed wrap around the said stack.
  • DE 43 42 112 C1 relates to an apparatus for the grouped packaging of filled tea bags, in which a stacking shaft is used for forming and fixing the row of bags.
  • a stacking shaft In the inlet area of the stacking shaft, retaining fingers which are fixed in the lengthwise direction are provided together with lengthwise displaceable bag holding means, the tea bags which are individually supplied by bag advancing means being positioned between them.
  • the automatic handling device for the purpose of this transfer, comprises
  • the gist of the invention resides in the oscillating feed head which ensures the intermediate stacker units to move continuously. This is of advantage since as a rule these intermediate stacker units are moved ahead by a comparatively voluminous chain drive, the stop and go operation of which, in the case of conventional handling devices, causes considerable strain on the handling device accompanied with corresponding wear because of the high inertias. In the case of the subject matter of the invention, only the feed head has to perform a discontinuous motion, which is by far easier to control in terms of machine equipment. Finally, as a result of the use of an intermediate stacker unit, the flexible products are properly guided during handling and kept definedly positioned for a subsequent packaging process. Consequently, a stacking job which is conventionally necessary for the flexible flat products can be carried out at a high speed, the stability of the stacking process being maintained and the mechanical strain on the plant being reduced.
  • Preferred embodiments of the handling device relate to the conveying means on the infeed side, to the design of the feed head in the form of an oscillating slotted block as well as the configuration of the intermediate stacker units as a conveying cassette having at least one take-up slot for the flat products.
  • the invention also relates to an intermediate stacker unit in particular to be used in the afore-said handling device in a configuration as a conveying cassette having at least one slot.
  • Preferred embodiments of the intermediate stacker unit relate to the shaping of this slot and especially to its contours. These are of special importance in particular in the handling of catamenial products such as sanitary towels or pantiliners, since these articles have inherent variations in curvature and orientation in the delivery from the production line.
  • the intermediate stacker unit in the form of a conveying cassette can compensate for these variations.
  • a substantial advantage of the conveying cassette slots contoured according to the invention resides in that on the one hand a wide opening is formed for the insertion of the product into the slot, which maximizes the so-called process window for the infeed of the product into the cassette. Simultaneously, during outfeed, a very accurately defined outfeed position of the product is produced by the narrowed section of the slot, which renders this handling job likewise more reliable.
  • the automatic handling device for pantiliners 1 which is diagrammatically outlined in Fig. 1, comprises conveying means 2 on the infeed side, denoted in their entirety by 2, for the serial guidance of the pantiliners 1 in a main infeed direction 3 as well as conveying means 4 on the outfeed side.
  • These conveying means 4 on the outfeed side substantially comprise individual intermediate stacker units 5 in the form of conveying cassettes which are disposed successively on a chain conveyor 6, leading the pantiliners 1 off towards a packaging arrangement (not shown in detail) in a main outfeed direction 7 which is perpendicular to the main infeed direction 3.
  • An oscillating feed head in the form of a slotted block 8 is disposed between the conveying means 2, 4 on the infeed side and on the outfeed side, providing for the supply of one pantiliner 1 at a time to the individual slot-type compartments 9 in the conveying cassettes 5, which will still be described in detail.
  • the conveying means 2 on the infeed side comprises a twin belt conveyor having two conveyor belts 10, 11 resting on each other and guided via corresponding guide pulleys 12.
  • the two conveyor belts 10, 11 take the pantiliner 1 serially one after the other from the production line and guide them via a deflection pulley 13 in the main infeed direction 3 to the slotted block 8.
  • the orientation of the pantiliners 1 is such that their narrow side is upright relative to the plane of the drawing.
  • the pantiliners 1 Through deflection of the two conveyor belts 10, 11, the pantiliners 1 successively leave the guide pulleys 12' which mark the end of the conveying means 2 on the infeed side and enter the slot 14 of the slotted block 8.
  • the latter's oscillating motion is synchronized by a corresponding oscillating drive mechanism 15 to combine with the continuous motion of the conveying cassettes 5 in the main outfeed direction 7 in such a way that when a pantiliner 1 passes through the slot 14, the latter's end 16 on the outfeed side is in alignment with an inlet port 17 of the respective slot-type compartment 9 in the conveying cassette 5.
  • the slotted block 8 orients itself towards the next slot-type compartment 9 by the oscillating motion counter to the main outfeed direction 7. Again the compartment 9 and the slotted block 8 run synchronous for the next pantiliner 1 to be inserted into the conveying cassette 5.
  • the slotted block 8 oscillates in the plane spanned by the main infeed direction 3 and the main outfeed direction 7 about a pivoting axis 18 roughly outlined in Fig. 1 in the vicinity of the end 19, on the infeed side, of the slotted block 8. As seen in Fig.
  • the conveying cassettes 5 which constitute the intermediate stacker units can be seen in Figs. 2 to 5.
  • They consist of a substantially cuboidal cassette 20 which is integrally produced from plastic material and in which slots 9 are molded parallel to the lengthwise direction, the slots 9 being open laterally and at the top for the accommodation of in each case one pantiliner 1 in an upend condition set on its longitudinal edge.
  • the lateral open side of the slots 9 constitute the inlet ports 17, on the infeed side, of the slots which are provided with a funnel-type enlargement 21 towards the upper edge of the cassette as seen in Fig. 2.
  • This enlargement 21 is formed by a projection 24 on the cassette partitions 25 which define the slots 9, this projection 24 extending as an upwardly skewed acclivity 23 from the bottom 22 of the conveying cassette 5.
  • each slot 9 is divided in depth 26 into a lower narrow portion 27 and an upper expanded portion 28.
  • the depth 26 of the slots 9 corresponds to approximately half the height 29 of a pantiliner 1 lodging edgewise in the slot 9 (Fig. 6).
  • Another characteristic of the shape of the slots 9 resides in that ahead of their closed end 30 which is opposite to the inlet port 17 they possess a smaller, reduced section 31 where the embossed rim of the pantiliner takes its place.
  • Fig. 6A diagrammatically outlines the condition in which the slotted block 8 and the conveying cassette 5 run synchronous.
  • the slotted block 8 possesses a nose 32 of an inclination that corresponds to the acclivity 23, this nose 32 forming the end 16, on the outfeed side, of the slot 14.
  • the advancing edge 33 of the pantiliner 1 first enters the slot 9 in the vicinity of the funnel-type enlargement 21 at the top of the conveying cassette 5.
  • the funnel-type shape helps attain on the one hand unimpeded passage of the advancing edge 33 into the slot 9 and on the other hand guidance and positioning of the pantiliner 1 in the conveying cassette 5 that become narrower and thus more defined as the depth of entry increases.
  • the lower narrow portion 27 in particular the lower embossed lengthwise edge of the pantiliner is well guided and positioned with a view to its subsequent entry into a packaging station.
  • FIG. 6B shows the conveying cassette 5 to be in opposition of a product guide 34.
  • edge 35, on the cassette side, of this guide 34 is inclined to match the acclivity 23.
  • the lower edge of the pantiliner 1 is the first to pass into product guide 34.
  • the position of this lower end portion 37 is well defined by the narrow portion 27 of the slots 9 so that a proper passage of the pantiliner 1 from the conveying cassette 5 into the product guide 34 is ensured.
  • the in this case advancing edge 33' passes into the product guide only at a later time when a good guiding effect has again been achieved by the lower edge.

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EP98120073A EP0995702A1 (en) 1998-10-23 1998-10-23 Automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenial products, and intermediate stacker unit to be used therein
PCT/US1999/024506 WO2000024637A2 (en) 1998-10-23 1999-10-20 Automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenial products, and intermediate stacker unit to be used therein
CA002346397A CA2346397C (en) 1998-10-23 1999-10-20 Automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenial products, and intermediate stacker unit to be used therein
US09/806,884 US6698579B1 (en) 1998-10-23 1999-10-20 Automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenial products and intermediate stacker unit to be used therein
DE69914638T DE69914638T2 (de) 1998-10-23 1999-10-20 Vorrichtung zum handhaben von nachgiebigen flachen gegenständen insbesondere damenbinden
AU12129/00A AU1212900A (en) 1998-10-23 1999-10-20 Automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenial products, and intermediate stacker unit to be used therein
EP99970973A EP1144251B1 (en) 1998-10-23 1999-10-20 Automatic handling device for flexible flat products, in particular catamenial products
AT99970973T ATE258879T1 (de) 1998-10-23 1999-10-20 Vorrichtung zum handhaben von nachgiebigen flachen gegenständen insbesondere damenbinden
JP2000578213A JP2003522696A (ja) 1998-10-23 1999-10-20 可撓性フラット製品、特に月経製品のための自動取扱装置、及びこれに用いられる中間スタッカユニット

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